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beta cell function was assessed as an index of the corrected insulinogenic response (CIR) [7] and disposition index (DI=CIR\u00d7SI) to adjust insulin secretion for SI.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "method", "sentence": "All subjects were right-handed according to the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory [29] and completed a safety check-list screening for contraindications to MRI.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "method", "sentence": "Spontaneous remission was defined as remission occurring in the absence of corticosteroid therapy, that is, disappearance of the pancreatic swelling visualized on CT and/or resolution of the diffuse narrowing of the main pancreatic duct as visualized by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) prior to the commencement of steroid therapy, as previously described [12].", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "method", "sentence": "We use the parallel prefix sum, filter and integer sorting routines from the Problem Based Benchmark Suite [26].", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "method", "sentence": "This iterative method allowed for the identification, analysis and reporting of patterns (themes) that had arisen within the data (Braun and Clarke 2006).", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "method", "sentence": "3 To this end, the proposed method is compared with several recommendation methods including User-based CF (UCF), Item-based CF (ICF) [51], SlopeOne [52], SVD++ [53], TARS [12], SoRec [31], SoReg [54], TrustMF [22], SocialMF [28], TrustSVD [25], IPG [26], CETrust [21], and 2DGC [55].", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "method", "sentence": "Introduction of HDAC4-specific\nsiRNA significantly inhibited denervation-induced atrophy (Fig-\nure 1A) as was also shown previously (Moresi et al., 2010).", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "method", "sentence": "Gestational age was assessed by mothers\u2019 report of their last menstrual period (87 newborns), early ultrasound dating (two newborns) and New Ballard Score examination (six newborns).(2) Anthropometric measurements of the infants were taken two hours after delivery by nurses previously trained.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "method", "sentence": "We use the GBrank algorithm for the ranking model learning, as GBrank is one of the most effective learning-to-rank algorithms (Zheng et al. 2007).", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "method", "sentence": "These were based on the WHO stepwise framework, (Epping-Jordan et al. 2005), and the prioritized research agenda for the prevention and control of NCDs (Mendis and Alwan 2011).", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "method", "sentence": "TG content of the intestine (proximal jejunum) was quantified in Figure 2, B and C, that of primary enterocytes isolated from the jejunum in Figure 1A, and that of fecal samples, liver, and epididymal white adipose tissue (eWAT) as described previously (9, 46, 47), and normalized to the weight of the tissue or proteins.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "method", "sentence": "were extracted and sequenced on a Roche GS Junior instrument, as previously described [25, 31, 32].", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "Elevated blood pH is consistent with one reported result (56) but differs from most other studies in which pH of hibernating and euthermic ground squirrels do not differ (15, 16, 27, 29, 40).", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "Unlike many previous studies (Landry et al. 2005, McManus et al. 2010, Malone and Michalak 2008, Renaut et al. 2009, Bell et al. 2013, Coolon et al. 2014), we found that misexpression was rare among the genes we measured in hybrid zebra finches.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "The results of our abscess culture data are consistent with previously published reports [1\u20137], which suggest that these results are generalizable to the broader population.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "\u201a\u00c4\u00f6\u221a\u00d1\u00ac\u2202in cuticle thickness reported\n here is in agreement with other studies which show that cuticle thickness increases (e.g. Gratani and Bonito 2009; Varone and Gratani 2009) and wax formation continues (e.g. Bukovac et al. 1979; Gu\u221a\u00c9\u221a\u2020lz et al. 1991; McWhorter et al. 1990) throughout leaf expansion.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "This finding is new for the Thr-Glu-Tyr motif and is consistent with the reported phosphorylation of Tyr during AR induced by LPC (de Lamirande et al., 1998, de Lamirande and Gagnon, 2002) and A23187 (Aitken et al., 1995).", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "The same results were obtained by Winther and Nathalang [27] and by Knoll-K\u221a\u2202hler [14], who did not determine any difference in the anaesthetic action profiles of a 2 and 4% solution of articaine or a 74-mM (=2.4% solution) and a 148-mM (=4", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "Compatible with our findings, Silk et al. (2016) found that FA values that were more strongly lateralized to the left in the PUT WM were associated with greater symptom severity in patients with ADHD.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "Out results also agree with that of Wang et al. (2015), who stated that serum IL-35 levels and its mRNA expression were decreased in allergic asthmatics.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "While we cannot exclude alternative models, our findings are consistent with models in which TRIM5\u2248\u00ed\u00ac\u00b1 engages lentiviral CA through two sets of contacts, one in the structurally conserved \u2248\u00ed\u201a\u00e2\u00a7-hairpin and the second at the junction between binding sites of at least four cellular cofactors [25, 78, 79].", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "By contrast, Hanlon et al. (1998) showed that higher serum cholesterol reduced the risk of hospitalization in this population.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "However, some other studies did not support using 18S rRNA gene for species delimitation [28,47,48].", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "In line with past studies (e.g., Anderson et al., 1998; Craik et al., 1996) results of the current study showed that secondary task performance i.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "These results agree with the observation that impaired SAMe synthesis and a lower rate of transmethylation is a frequent feature in human NAFLD.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "Our patient satisfaction rates are consistent with the results of other studies that have used diode lasers for turbinate reduction [3\u201a\u00c4\u00ec7].", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "DGC via S-SCAM and SynArfGEF binding to dystrophin (Sumita et al. 2007; Fukaya et al. 2011), NL2 does not appear to play a role in synapse formation, in striking contrast with our results that a-dystroglycan is required for formation and maintenance of synapses from CCK-basket cells (Fr\u00fch et al.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "result", "sentence": "Previous research has shown that EC and EI can be significantly affected by other confounding/ independent factors such as field moisture capacity, position of the positive plant electrode and negative soil electrode, and soil/root temperature (Aubrecht et al. 2006; Dietrich et al. 2013; Postic and Claude 2016). EC increases gradually with increasing field moisture and plateaus when field moisture reaches maximum soil water capacity (Dalton 1995; Dietrich et al. 2013). The current research supports these previous results, as the EC increased and EI decreased following irrigation, regardless of treatments (Table 2). Dalton (1995) explained that a decrease in EC was caused by less effective root tissue in contact with soil medium.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "In addition, we recently demonstrated the important role of another 89-kDa periplasmic protein localized in the invasion tip during bacterial escape from the host digestive vacuole, migration through the host cytoplasm towards the target nucleus, and invasion into the macronucleus (Iwatani et al., 2005).", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "The study on the graft transmission of phloem proteins in interspecific and intergeneric heterografts in the Cucurbitaceae family suggested that the direction of phloem protein translocation depended on the scion/rootstock combination [43].", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "8) with poor oral bioavailability thus necessitating administration of relatively high doses (300\u2013450 mg/kg body weight in preclinical models) for optimal therapeutic benefits (Aneja et al., 2007; Ke et al., 2000; Ye et al., 1998).", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "Some have interpreted this as evidence for the \u201cobligatory processing of all of the features of an object, even when instructions direct the observer to focus on only a single part\u201d (Gauthier & Tarr, 2002).", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "This situation is also known as the tragedy of the commons [4] and the game belongs to what is called a common pool resource game [3].", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "K+\u20132Cl\u2212 cotransporter (NKCC2) and the K+ channel (ROMK) in the TAL (Riccardi & Brown, 2010).", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "Le taux des patientes perdues de vu varie dans la litt\u00e9rature entre 0 et 12% [7-10,14,17,20,30] et il est le plus souvent inf\u00e9rieur \u00e0 4% [8-10,14,20,30].", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "At 6 days after LCMV infection, virus-specific Tfh cells (CXCR5+ SLAMlo) and Th1 cells (CXCR5 SLAMhi) (Choi et al., 2013; Johnston et al., 2009) were isolated by flow cytometry and deep sequenced for differential representation of the shRNAs.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "well with the characteristics of tryptophan fluorescence spectra (Boubellouta and Dufour 2008), which is present in meat proteins.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "Eastern rainbowfish exposed to low pH in hard and soft water displayed signs of increased respiratory stress at pH o5 (Holland et al., 2014a).", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "Motivation Today, camera identification based on sensor fingerprint is a mature area of research [1, 7, 10, 17].", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "2004) but MBs are more frequently found in sheep hearts (Ozbag and Kervancioglu 2004) than human hearts.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "Although, this sophisticated defence system is weakened with advancing age and even in the absence of overt lung disease [26\u201331], the intrathoracic dwell time of influenza viruses is increased [29, 32] facilitating any transepithelial migration of the viral particles.", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "Importantly, brain atrophy measures based on T1w images are shown to correlate with the amount of tau deposition and neuropsychological deficits, thus validating its use as a biomarker of Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) (Frisoni et al., 2010).", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "In previous work, we found that pharmacological inhibition of PKC reduces the high basal glucose uptake of muscle and adipose cells overexpressing PED and rescues most of the insulin effect in glucose uptake (1).", "aspect": "scicite"}, {"sentiment": "background", "sentence": "an XX/XY or ZZ/ZW system, respectively), individuals of the heterogametic sex possess sexspecific genomic regions for which sex-specific molecular genetic markers can be developed (Gamble 2016; Griffiths and Tiwari 1993).", "aspect": "scicite"}]